Rob, I have already picked up those functions. I think they are virtually the same in all languages. Thanks
Emeka On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 01/08/2011 13:14, Emeka wrote: > >> >> I would like to know how to access character from string lateral. >> >> Say I have >> $foo = "From Big Brother Africa"; >> I would want to print each of the characters of $foo on its own. >> >> In some languages string type is just array/list of characters. What is it >> in Perl? >> > > Hi Emeka > > Perl is rich with string-handling operators. Take a look at > > perldoc perlfunc > > and look at "Perl Functions by Category". Part of it reads > > Functions for SCALARs or strings >> "chomp", "chop", "chr", "crypt", "hex", "index", "lc", "lcfirst", >> "length", "oct", "ord", "pack", "q//", "qq//", "reverse", "rindex", >> "sprintf", "substr", "tr///", "uc", "ucfirst", "y///" >> >> Regular expressions and pattern matching >> "m//", "pos", "quotemeta", "s///", "split", "study", "qr//" >> > > So what you would ordinarily do in C by indexing an array of characters > can have many better solutions in Perl. > > As has been mentioned by others, > > my @chars = split //, $string; > > will give you an array of one-character strings that you may be able to > handle as if you were using a different language, but that is rarely the > way to go if you are writing a Perl program. > > Perl regular expressions are very felxible and comprehensive, and you > will find that most string operations are best expressed that way rather > than using split, index, substr and so on. > > If you describe your goal then we would be able to help you better. > > Rob > -- *Satajanus Nig. Ltd *
